Rail Transport System
In this section you will learn more about the rail transport system and its different elements goods, trains, railways and railway stations. This topic follows the structure of the conceptual system model of transport and traffic.
1. Introduction
In this section, you will learn more about the rail transport system.
After the activities, the goods, that are transported by rail are
presented to you. Rail transport requires trains, railways and railway
stations, so you will also learn more about those elements. To summarize
the section of rail transport, some advantages and disadvantages of the
rail transport system will be presented.
The figure "Rail system model" shows the structure of the content of this topic.
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On the next page, the activities are presented to you.
Literature
Literature
Flämig, H., Sjöstedt, L., Hertel, C. (2002): Multimodal Transport: An Integrated Element for Last-Mile-Solutions?
Proceedings, part 1; International Congress on Freight Transport
Automation and Multimodality: Organisational and Technological
Innovations. Delft, 23 & 24 May 2002. (modification of Sjöstedt
1996)